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On my first day of UO I opened a box and died, told my friend his game was poo poo and didn't play for 3 months.
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Feb 2, 2018 05:13
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On my first week of UO, I didn't know about moongates so using the cloth map that came with the game I attempted to run from Yew to Britain Somewhere along the way I ran into a PK and died and instantly ressed with the "take stat loss" option because you could do that back then and I didn't know any better, so of course I was killed many times and wound up with skills worse than a starting character and ended up remaking Around that same time I started with something like 33 tailoring, 33 archery, and 33 bowcrafting (wanting to be a ranger) and I would spend incredibly long times killing deer and making studded cuirasses, and then trying to sell them to people at the tailor by telling them hey I can sell you a better outfit for cheaper than the leather you're buying from that NPC! I actually made a couple sales! Eventually my friend convinced me to try PKing so I got up my courage and my heavy xbow and my 40 archery, and I attacked someone named "Damian" who only slowly walked towards me and punched me, but ended up basically winning the fight and I had to run. It wasn't until later that I figured out Damian was a wandering monk NPC (not healer because his paperdoll just said his name)
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Feb 2, 2018 06:01
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I just remember the terrible lagg even on dsl. Also I just wanted to chop some loving wood but some rear end in a top hat always came by and PKd me.
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Feb 2, 2018 06:11
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I couldn't afford to actually play on the paid UO servers so my experiences are pretty much solely with smaller servers. I'll try 7 sometime though. I loved 3 on NES but I got the game when I was really young and my older cousin gave me all his NES stuff after buying a genesis, and it was too complicated of a game for me to figure out for a couple years later when i got a bit older.
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Feb 2, 2018 08:38
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I had no idea what I was doing as a dumb kid and wandered around until I stumbled upon someones collapsed home and stole their ship. So I spent a lot of time sailing that boat around until I was PK'ed and lost my boat and was very sad.
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Feb 2, 2018 19:48
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This is now the good feels thread and I'll share some UO stories. This one is pretty much the story of internet innocence lost and how I began the slide to becoming a video game rear end in a top hat. One day I was outside of Trinsic working on taming and collecting feathers. I'm fairly new to the game, but not online shenanigans. I had done the whole Diablo thing. I'd seen some assholery before with Townkill and whatnot. I was attracted to UO because holy poo poo you mean I can bake bread and talk to other people in a virtual world who might want to buy my bread ? Sounds amazing. Like a giant BBS door game on crack cocane. So like many, I too wanted to make a ranger type character. Good with bows and able to tame creatures to fight for me and defend the forest. Well the only way to get good at that is to practice. So out from the city I went into the wilds. After about 20 minutes, I passed a grey brick house just north in the woods and 3 dudes run out suddently to slay my poor other than a pile of feathers and a dagger having character. (This was before the New Player status and Fel/Tram shards so you were born into Britania naked and vulnerable from the get go) I remember them saying stuff like "our woods human being" "thx for the feathers newb" and other sick burns as my ghost looked on while they chopped up my body and threw my newbie clothes on the ground to rot. I had an idea. I was going to find out who these dudes were and get my revenge when I became strong one day. This was a new character so I didn't have poo poo to lose by rezzing with stat loss. I did know this after restarting a few times as I decided what I wanted to be in this world. Also at that time, there was no house lists where you could ban people from going past your front steps, and ghosts could walk around unseen while keeping the rez box up. So I followed them inside the house to find out who these dudes were. They went about their buisness. One dude was practicing magic resist with a boxed up Lich in the back room. I watched as they would gate out and come back and throw stuff in chests that were stacked 4 or 5 high along the back wall of the big front room.. (You could see stuff going in and coming out of containers sometimes back then) I noticed it was a poo poo load of spell reagents at one time. Another dude was smelting in the 3rd small back room. That's when it hit me. These dudes were depositing look gathered from their PK characters and I was basically standing inside Fort Knox right now, undetected as a ghost and nobody knew. I then had a better plan. I picked up the phone (which was on a 2nd phone line because "I'M ON THE INTERNET MOM, DON'T PICK UP THE PHONE") and called my bud who had been playing for a bit and had his own posse that also played. I filled him in on the situation and he asked if I wanted him to come kill them off for the fun of it. I didn't just want their blood. I wanted more. I wanted to break them. I wanted to leave them as they left me, with nothing, feeling powerless as the day they started playing. He asked if I was still inside watching them with the res box up. I was. He squealed with excitement and told me to hold on. He got in touch with several guild friends and we moved over to chat on ICQ. poo poo got real here. A plan was formed. I was going to stand by the door in ghost mode while my friend and his posse moved into position out front. I would then res and open the door allowing my friends to run in and slay everyone inside. We would then rob them blind. Every chest, every stick of furniture. What we could not take, we would destroy. Scorched earth. My friend decided to do a drive by to make sure he could find the right house. It was hard to describe being a new player. A few bumbled directions and anxious moments later I heard the sound of his horse approaching off screen and saw his name appear in the bottom right of my 15 inch CRT soon after. The time to strike drew near. My friend rode past as three guys tore rear end out of the house to chase him down. He was quiet for a few minutes in ICQ. I wondered if they had killed him. "Marked a rune. Get ready fast. We're going now." finally came his message. I moved to the door. I had a singular purpose, but god drat it if I wasn't going to gently caress this up. The three guys who bolted out the house were riding back now. They rode up to the house and stood outside. The words "Now, open it." will forever be seared into my brain. I clicked rez and my grey screen filled with color. I grabbed the doorknob and opened that door that would change my MMO life forever. It opened a new world to me. I stood there, defiant in the face of my attackers. Standing on their sacred ground. Two of them turned and rode up to me immediatly. "Corp Por" one of them said But it was too late. A gang of blue hit the screen, roling at least 10 deep. They hit those steps fast and hard and poured inside. The three outside were no match for the onslaught that flooded over them and were dead within seconds to a barrage of energy bolts and flamestrikes. Inside the guys in the back room ran forward to see what was going down. They ate poo poo soon after, cut down by a buzzsaw of halbreds. "lol, got their keys" We took it all. It was like a well oiled machine. The loot was carried out in a conga line. The chests were so full they couldn't be carried. You could only walk one or two steps and be out of stamina. When someone move it two steps, someone else would pick it up and walk through a gate. The gates were guarded as those guys tried having their friends come help. They threw themselves at my friend and his guild, running in single file, sometimes naked except a hastily grabbed reg bag I guess they kept in their personal banks. They even took the lich from the back room, coaxing it to travel through a gate and then back to their guild house. We didn't say a word to them. I don't think poo poo talking was necessary. It was some pretty underhanded poo poo that went down to be honest. I basically hosed them using an exploit. But I felt great. Vindicated. I'd walk back that way weeks later and the hosue was still abandoned. Eventually it rotted away. Since we had their house keys, it would never be safe until many patches later. As time went on, I fell further and further into assholery. I would break into friends houses and deadly poison their house chests for the gently caress of it. I'd trap red boxes and leave them laying around Brit bank with another character and laugh while on my tinker on a second account would get murder count after murder count and he would never leave the upstairs forge room of a two story house halfway across the world. I'd take a stack of trapped chests into Destard I think it was where people killed dragons and ancient wyrms and take the real chests off their corpses and replace them with trapped ones and watch them die while I scooped up all their riches. I wasn't famous or infamous, I was just a prick. But I enjoyed myself in Ultima Online.
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Feb 2, 2018 21:21
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Node posted:Play 7, it is legit good. Use Exult, a modern port for U7, to play it. 7 had it's good and bad points. The graphics were amazing for it's time, the plot was interesting, and it may have been the first game ever to have DLC, except you couldn't actually download it because it was 1992 so you had to walk into a software store and buy the box. On the other hand gameplay was 100% FedEx quests, the inventory system was horrible, and it had some bugs. Exult fixes the bugs and makes inventory better, so give it a try.
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Feb 2, 2018 21:23
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Node posted:On my very first day of UO, I inspected someone's paper doll named Michael Jackson. He had a Dishonorable reputation, so I thought that Origin was making a little joke by including The Dishonorable Michael Jackson, not knowing that was another player. This reminds me of a story of how Garriott started talking with a character, and somehow didn't realize it was an NPC from the way it responded to his questions.
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Feb 3, 2018 07:20
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They're verifying mailing addresses again! They're going to need to run a huge telethon to pay for shipping expenses :o
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Feb 9, 2018 07:45
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I'm the guy that bought all available samples of Lord British's blood
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Feb 9, 2018 08:50
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Mix it with all his poo poo, and you get a homunculus!
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Feb 10, 2018 16:06
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What about Darkstarrs hair though? I would say that is worth more cuz it’s super rare!
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Feb 11, 2018 01:01
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HungryMedusa posted:What about Darkstarrs hair though? I would say that is worth more cuz it’s super rare! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUSLmc4o0tU
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Feb 12, 2018 10:12
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Bieeanshee posted:Mix it with all his poo poo, and you get a homunculus! 
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Feb 12, 2018 15:36
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Holy poo poo lol E: This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf1nyanKWps HungryMedusa fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Feb 12, 2018 |
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Feb 12, 2018 16:21
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Zerilan posted:I couldn't afford to actually play on the paid UO servers so my experiences are pretty much solely with smaller servers. I've never played even one of the Ultima games, never even knew of their existence until much later. I did play Tabula Rasa and that's why I didn't even consider dumping any money on this stupid pile of crap.
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Feb 13, 2018 00:35
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Kak posted:CU is the only other game I backed besides this smoldering pile of poo poo. Their team seems to be making progress slowly but surely considering they're making an engine and assets from the ground up and one of their main programmers left because of creative differences. I hope it does well. It looks like it will be perfect for people that can't log 8 hours a day and just want a quick battle and be able to log off. Same here, only two kickstarters I've ever given a dollar to Camelot Unchained announced today that Beta 1 will begin July 4th this year, and that part of the rewards being given to donors for all the delays will be things like: Beta 2/3 people will be let in right away or maybe a week later Beyond that it's just guesses, sounds like prices will change and some gifts will be added as bonuses, then maybe a month after beta the good deals will go away and refunds might be turned off. So this game will have gone like 5 years of development with refunds left open the entire time, and with Mark Jacobs putting in more of his own cash than we did. Pretty cool even if slow. Seems like it'll accommodate casuals more than other greasier MMOs. As far as a thread goes I'm still playing LoTRO and doing that thread, so one of you bums should put one up in maybe early June, thanks!!
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Feb 13, 2018 03:42
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Alexander DeLarge posted:If you're a backer receiving physical goods, make sure you give them your address on the account page. physical items still haven't shipped looking through some of the old posts DancingShade and Alexander DeLarge made makes me crack the hell up
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Feb 15, 2018 01:11
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TheAgent posted:this was from September 3rd, 2016 are you trying to say that a guy worth 50 milion dollars could safely afford to mail people mousepads and posters within 5 years of taking their money on kickstarter? let's keep things fair and realistic. what next, the 'massively' in MMORPG should mean more than 218 people?? the 52nd build of the game shouldn't crash to desktop everytime???
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Feb 15, 2018 10:47
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poor Node one day you'll find your mmo Shangri-La
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Feb 15, 2018 14:30
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TheAgent posted:poor Node Thank you for your kind words. 
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Feb 16, 2018 05:14
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Who is Lum and why is everyone trying to defend him? All I understood is he's somehow involved in producing this piece of poo poo.
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Feb 16, 2018 22:17
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Shy posted:Who is Lum and why is everyone trying to defend him? All I understood is he's somehow involved in producing this piece of poo poo. he had a good web site that everyone into MMOs in the late 90s read
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Feb 16, 2018 22:24
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he became the thing he most hated makes me lol all the time
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Feb 17, 2018 00:30
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Shy posted:Who is Lum and why is everyone trying to defend him? All I understood is he's somehow involved in producing this piece of poo poo. Proto-blogger from the late 90's who tore apart the first MMOs for doing stupid poo poo. He's an example of living long enough to become the villain.
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Feb 17, 2018 01:40
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I just want to know if SOTA will have fetapults or not
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Feb 17, 2018 02:02
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also is a goon and was posting itt during the initial phase when there was hope. 
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Feb 17, 2018 02:21
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Dr. Kyle Farnsworth posted:also is a goon and was posting itt during the initial phase when there was hope. What was the moment the game officially ran out of hope? Was it a sudden event, or was it a slow slide into despair?
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Feb 17, 2018 03:06
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Freakazoid_ posted:Proto-blogger from the late 90's who tore apart the first MMOs for doing stupid poo poo. I dont think Lum has actually become the villain. Its more like hes become one of the villains expendable lackeys.
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Feb 17, 2018 03:35
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i actually learned about these forums from the Lum the Mad forums lol
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Feb 17, 2018 04:14
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If I had to guess, I would say Lum is none too happy with how this poo poo show went down. I never liked him back in the day, but I think he really did believe in the vision. Eventually the reality of the lack of direction + Garriott's not giving a fuckness piled on and suddenly Shroud is worse than U9. It has to be really hard to hear constant criticism about something you joined in good faith.
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Feb 17, 2018 04:32
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I kind of suspect Lum's not finding a lot of work as a B tier MMO database guy these days and took the job because work is work. God knows hes been through more than a few layoffs over the years. Which makes me feel bad that hes getting ragged on so hard for getting stuck on this dead end of a project. Its still kind of entertaining considering who he used to be.
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Feb 17, 2018 05:00
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CoffeeBooze posted:I kind of suspect Lum's not finding a lot of work as a B tier MMO database guy these days and took the job because work is work. Oh, come on. Have you SEEN how most MMO databases are laid out? I'm B+ tier, easy. At the risk of being baited into touching the poop once again (by pretty much the same folks as last time) I'm fine, the game's fine, even if it turns out not to be, I'll still be fine, amazingly it's not my name on the cover so blaming me for everything you're ranting about (justifiably or not) is silly, and I fully understand the irony. Hell, I work with the people daily whose lives I made miserable 20 years ago. Irony is my morning coffee.
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Feb 17, 2018 16:35
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Lum_ posted:Oh, come on. Have you SEEN how most MMO databases are laid out? I'm B+ tier, easy. This right here is why Lum is still cool.
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Feb 17, 2018 17:46
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It's good to know he's been reading my posts about how atos is the real problem (okay garriot is obviously the real problem but still)
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Feb 17, 2018 18:44
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Lonjon posted:This right here is why Lum is still cool. This, right here, yeah.
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Feb 17, 2018 20:45
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just don't go working for chris roberts, you've been punished enough for one lifetime
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Feb 17, 2018 20:47
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also you guys are really defensive about the game, what's with that take the haters in stride man. the game should be good enough to defend itself
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Feb 17, 2018 20:48
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Lonjon posted:This right here is why Lum is still cool. No he's not, it's a standard corporate tactic, just repeat the lie enough times for it to become the truth. MMO has failed, game has failed, another classic developer should probably go and do something else. Nothing to see here.
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Feb 17, 2018 21:19
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fyi lum irony is not like "goldy" or "bronzey" but made of iron
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Feb 17, 2018 22:33
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